PART THREE

The Chedworth Line - 1800 to 1970

Updated November 2011

The July 2009 update was thanks to new information, photographs, and drawing received

from David Martin of Pontefract in Yorkshire

On Saturday 6^th November 1999 Martin John Cairns of Abingdon in Oxfordshire and Elizabeth Charlotte Gegg (Ref. 3R12) from Cirencester in Gloucestershire were married at Park United Reform Church in Reading.

Nothing very surprising in that you might think, until you realise that both young people descended from branches of the Gloucestershire Collett family.

This section of the family history is a link line between Part Two starting at Henry Collett (Ref. 2M23) of Chedworth and coming forward in time through the Gegg family and eventually arriving at Part One with Martin Cairns (Ref. 1S9). Martin’s mother is my youngest sister Mary Cairns nee Collett (Ref. 1R4). Thus another important loop line is established.

Grateful thanks go to Brian Gegg (Ref. 3Q6) for kindly providing the information on the Gegg family that connects the latter day Colletts of Chedworth with the Cairns family of the 21^st Century.

Thanks must also go to Ivor Clucas of Herefordshire for supplying more recent information relating to his wife Marion Young (Ref. 3S1) who is a direct descendent of Richard Collett (Ref. 3N1).

3M1	HENRY COLLETT (Ref. 2M23) was baptised on 07.07.1794 at Notgrove where he married Mary Ann Margetts on 31.07.1815. All of their children were born at Chedworth but as the parent’s were opposed to the ordinance of infants, the births were simply registered at the Chedworth Independent Church.
	Henry and his sister Elizabeth (Ref. 2M21) were the only two children of Henry Collett and Mary Rowland not to benefit from the 1818 Will of their grandfather William Rowland (see Ref. 10K1).
	Henry’s occupation was that of a shoemaker like that of his father Henry Collett and his brother Richard Collett (Ref. 2M25). Through the 1830 Will of his father, Henry junior inherited his father’s cottage at Naunton. And according to 1832 Electoral Roll, Henry was listed as a Freeholder as can be seen from the contents of following document and that of his own Will of 20^th February 1850 (see Will in Legal Documents)
	The 1842 Commutation of Tithes map indicates that Henry was the owner of a house and orchard on Green Lane near Bleakmoor. He was for many years the Deacon at Chedworth, where he was buried following his death on 16.03.1850.
	In the 1851 Census for Chedworth, Henry’s widow Mary Ann Collett was listed as being 55 years of age and her occupation was described as being that of a grocer. Her place of birth was confirmed as having been Notgrove. With her on that occasion were two of her children, Eliza aged 16 and Jane aged 15, both of whom were confirmed as having been born at Chedworth. There was also a visitor staying with the family at that time who was Esther Rose aged 58 of no stated place of birth. The magnificent painting shown on the right is of Mary Ann Collett, formerly Margetts, and was drawn and painted by A Betts in 1853, as detailed on the bottom right of the picture. On the top left of the painting (but not visible here) is a pencilled note by the Rev. Sidney John Martin that this was his mother’s mother’s mother. His mother was Sarah Blanche Gegg, and her mother was Sarah Martha Collett, the daughter of Mary Ann Margetts. Mary Ann Margetts was born at Notgrove around 1796 and she died in 1866 at the age of 70. So this drawing was made when she was around 57 years of age.
	Henry’s Will was proved in the same year that he died and referred to his brother Richard Collett (Ref. 2M23) of Notgrove a shoemaker, and his friend John William Cornley, to whom he jointly bequeathed three cottages and gardens at Chedworth Laines and two cottages and gardens in Lower Chedworth.
	The Will stated that all of these properties were purchased from Richard Harris and that his own dwelling house had been purchased from Joseph Wilson. The adjoining orchard (on the opposite side of Green Lane from the cottage) was purchased from Simon Wilson. Other premises and orchard in Naunton purchased from John Wood were also bequeathed to the pair.
	The estate was to be sold by the trustees and converted into Parliamentary stocks and public funds, the dividends and interest from which would be paid to his Henry’s wife Mary Ann until her death, after which it would go to his children.
	The references in Henry’s Will to Richard Harris and John Wood are interesting in that there appears to be many ties between the two respective families and the Collett family. For example: Samuel Collett (Ref. 2L16) married Martha Harris around 1785, Hannah Collett (Ref. 2M14) married William Harris in 1796, and Jane Collett (Ref. 2M29) married Thomas Harris in 1831.
	And then there was Ann Collett (Ref. 2L15) who married Joseph Wood in 1783, Mary Collett (Ref. 2L22) married his brother John Wood in 1789 and Jane Collett (Ref. 2M15) married another John Wood in 1820, possibly the son of the first John Wood.
	3N1	Richard Collett		Born on 04.04.1816
	3N2	Robert Collett		Born on 17.05.1818
	3N3	Henry Collett		Born on 31.03.1820
	3N4	John Collett		Born on 18.04.1822
	3N5	Philip Collett		Born on 04.04.1826
	3N6	Mary Ann Collett		Born on 17.06.1828
	3N7	Sarah Collett		Born in November 1830
	3N8	Sarah Martha Collett		Born on 29.03.1832
	3N9	Eliza Collett		Born on 18.06.1834
	3N10	JANE COLLETT		Born on 15.12.1835
3N1	Richard Collett was born on 04.04.1816 at Chedworth. On 11.03.1839 he was married (1) Sophia Burge who was born at Arlington on 01.06.1807, but who later died in September 1855. Sophia was the daughter of James Archer Burge and Mary Williams. Richard and Sophia appear in the census for both 1841 and 1851 as residents of Naunton.
	By 1851 the family living at Naunton was listed as Richard Collett, age 34, a tailor of Chedworth, his wife Sophia, age 43 and of Arlington, their daughters Jane who was 10 and Sophia who was nine, both of Naunton, their son Walter who was eight and of Lower Slaughter, and daughters Helen, also of Lower Slaughter, who was seven, and Mary of Naunton who was four years old.
	One year after the death of his first wife at Stow-on-the-Wold, Richard married (2) Mary Williams at Birmingham during the third quarter of 1856, although she was recorded as Mary Ann at the time of the registration of the birth of her children with Richard Collett and in the subsequent census returns.
	It was previously thought that Mary Ann may to have been either Mary Ann Collett (Ref. 14M15) the daughter of Robert Collett and Mary Ann Kyte born at Bourton-on-the Water on 28.07.1828, or Mary Baylis the daughter of Benjamin and Elizabeth born around 1830/31 since all of their children were born at Naunton. However, it might now appear that she may have been related in some way to Richard’s mother-in-law, Mary Williams, the wife of James Archer Burge, the parents of his first wife Sophia.
	For further details of Mary Ann Collett (Ref. 14M15) and her family see Part 14 – The John Kyte Collett Line
	Five years prior to their wedding day, the census in 1851 recorded Mary Williams as being 21 and born at Naunton, when she was employed as a servant at a house in Guiting Power.
	One she was married to Richard, Mary Ann took up work with her husband as a tailoress, as confirmed by the 1861 Census for Naunton in which Richard Collett was listed as 45 and a tailor, while his wife Mary Collett of Naunton was 32 and a tailoress. The only children with them were Thruby Collett, who was three, and Fred Collett who was one year old, and both of them born at Naunton.
	Also later census records indicate that son Walter was born at Andoversford which is near Shipton Oliffe & Shipton Sollars, where both he and his half brother Henry Thruby Collett were baptised and where sister Charlotte was born.
	In 1881 the family, minus all of Sophia’s children and Fred Collett, were living at Middle Row Woodman Inn at Bourton on the Water. Richard Collett, then aged 63, was still a tailor, while his wife was 51, and their eldest son Henry T Collett was 22, both of them described as labourers. Living with them were their daughters Charlotte and Ada were 12 years and eight years old, respectively.
	Also living with the family in 1881 was boarder Hannah Moulder, who was 76 and from Notgrove.
	By 1891 Richard, at the age of 75, was still working as a tailor, and he and his wife Mary Ann, age 60 and a laundress, had returned to live at Naunton. Living with them were their two youngest daughters Charlotte, age 22, who was born at Shipton Oliffe, and Ada who was 19 and born at Guiting Power. The occupation for both girls was given as a laundress, which very likely indicates that they were working for their father.
	3O1	Jane Collett		Born circa June 1840
	3O2	Sophia Collett		Born circa September 1841
	3O3	Walter Collett		Born circa December 1842
	3O4	Helen Collett		Born circa 1844
	3O5	Mary Collett		Born circa December 1846
	3O6	Henry Thruby Collett		Born circa 1858
	3O7	Fred Collett		Born circa 1860
	3O8	Charlotte Collett		Born in 1868
	3O9	Ada Collett		Born in 1872
3N2	Robert Collett was born on 17.05.1818 at Chedworth, the son of Henry Collett and his wife Mary Ann Margetts. It was at St Andrew’s Church in Chedworth that Robert married Martha Spencer of Caudle Green, near Cheltenham on 27.03.1842. The witnesses at the wedding were Robert’s father Henry Collett, and Mary Ann Spencer who was likely to be the bride’s mother, whilst it is known from the records that Martha’s father was blacksmith Robert Spencer.
	Curiously within the IGI there are two entries for the wedding of Robert Collett and Martha Spencer. The first with the details above, the second at the Christ’s Church in Chalford near Stroud, which took place on 14.02.1842.
	It should also be noted that within Part 13 – The South Africa Line there is another Robert Collett (Ref. 13N19) who was baptised at Stroud on 10.05.1818, and it was previously thought that it was he who had married Martha Spencer at Chalford which is only a few miles from Stroud. However, his father’s name was James Collett, so this has been discounted.
	Although all of their children were baptised at either Chedworth Congregational Chapel or Chedworth Independent Chapel, their place of birth varied from Caudle Green to Brimpsfield near Cheltenham, to Northleach and Chedworth.
	According to the census of 1851 Robert Collett, age 32 and from Chedworth, was working as a cordwainer (a shoemaker), while his wife was Martha who was 29 and also born at Chedworth. At that time in their lives, they and their family were living at Gadbridge in Chedworth, and living in the next dwelling to the family was Robert’s brother Henry Collett (below).
	Robert’s and Martha’s children were listed as Robert Collett who was eight years old, and Adolpha Collett who was seven, both of them born at Brimpsfield, and Anna (Hannah) aged three and Sarah who was one year old, and both of them born at Northleach. The couple’s missing daughter Ann, age four years and was born at Northleach, was living at the Chedworth home of her grandmother, the widow Ann Spencer aged 55 and three of her own children.
	Ten years later in 1861 the family was still living in Chedworth and comprised shoemaker Robert Collett, age 42, his wife Martha 39, Ann Collett 15, Hannah M Collett 13, Sarah M Collett 11, Philip H Collett who was nine, Mary Ann Collett who was three, and Jane Collett who was seven months old, and on that occasion the place of birth of all of the children was confirmed as Chedworth.
	According to the next census in 1871, only three of their children were still living in the family home at Chedworth by that time. Daughter Ann Collett was 25 and was a domestic servant, her brother Philip was 19 and was a shoemaker, and the youngest sibling was Jane, who was 10 years old. Their parents were listed as Robert Collett, age 52 and a shoemaker, and Martha Collett, age 49, who was a dressmaker.
	By that time, Robert’s and Martha’s eldest son Robert was married and had started a family of his own. In 1871 he was living in Gloucester and staying there with him and his family on the day of the census was Robert’s and Martha’s daughter Mary Ann Collett, age 13, who was one of the children absent from their home in Chedworth.
	By 1881 Robert’s wife Martha, then aged 59, was a widow living alone at Pancake Hill in Chedworth, while she was continuing her occupation as a dressmaker. Robert died on 17.12.1876 and was buried at Chedworth, as detailed on his gravestone, while Martha died over thirty years later in 1909.
	Martha appears to have left Chedworth by 1891 when, in the census that year, she was listed as Martha Collett of Chedworth who was 69 and living in the Cheltenham area. After a further ten years, Martha Collett from Chedworth was 79, and was living in Great Somerford, three miles south-east of Malmesbury in Wiltshire.
	3O10	Robert Collett		Born on 01.12.1842
	3O11	Adolpha Collett		Born on 19.03.1844
	3O12	Ann Collett		Born on 17.10.1845
	3O13	Hannah Maria Collett		Born in 1846-1848
	3O14	Sarah Martha Collett		Born on 31.10.1849
	3O15	Philip Henry Collett		Born on 25.03.1852
	3O16	Alfred Collett		Born on 06.02.1855
	3O17	Mary Ann Collett		Born on 20.02.1858
	3O18	Jane Collett		Born on 04.09.1860
3N3	Henry Collett was born on 31.03.1820 at Chedworth. He married his cousin Elizabeth Collett (Ref. 2N29) on 05.11.1844 in the presence of his brother John Collett and Mary Wilson. See Ref. 2M24 for a family connection through the earlier marriage of Moses White and Catherine Wilson. Elizabeth was born on 16.04.1824 and was baptised at Chedworth on 21.06.1824.
	When only just eighteen years of age she gave birth to a base born child. Six months later, while working as a servant at a house in Cirencester she appeared in court and was sentenced on 19^th June 1843 to a year in Gloucester Gaol. This however was reduced at the Trinity Session on 27^th June 1843 to just two calendar months at Northleach (Committal Ref. Q/Gc5/7 Summer Assizes) presumably because of the need for her to care for her six month old daughter Fanny.
	In the event, she only served one week and was released on 4^th July 1843, possibly into the care of her cousin Henry to whom she was later married. All of their children were born at Chedworth but none were baptised due to the Henry’s objection to the ordinance of infants.
	In the Census of 1851 Henry, a cordwainer, and Elizabeth and their children were living at Gadbridge in Chedworth.
	By 1861 the family had grown but was still living at Chedworth where all of the children were born. The census entry listed the following details: Henry Collett aged 41 a boot and shoemaker; Elizabeth Collett aged 36 a shoe binder; Rhoda 15; Amelia 14; Mary Ann 10; John 7; Sarah 5; Eliza Ann 2; and Hubert aged ten months.
	In March 1863 Elizabeth wrote a birthday letter to her daughter Amelia who was to become sixteen years of age on the following day. This fascinating letter is included as an appendix at the end of this family line.
	In addition to the family, Walter Collett aged 18 and a nephew of Naunton was also listed. He was working with his uncle Henry as an apprentice shoemaker. Daughter Betsy was missing from the family home in 1861 as she was visiting her father’s sister Sarah Martha Gegg nee Collett (below) at Hawling, Sarah having married John Gegg.
	Daughter Fanny Collett was absent from the family home in 1861 as she was living at the Chedworth home of 83 years old widow and fund holder Elizabeth Wilson of Chedworth.
	By 1871 the family had been extended to Henry 51, Elizabeth 46, John 17 a shoemaker like his father, Eliza 12, Hubert 10, Sophia 9, Priscilla 7, Henry M 3 and Ebenezer 2.
	According to the Census of 1881 the family were living at Chapel Hill in Chedworth. Henry, aged 61, was a boot-maker as was son John Henry, aged 27. The only other members of the family still living at home were his wife Elizabeth aged 56, daughter Priscilla aged 19, son Henry aged 13 a farm labourer, and Ebenezer William aged 12, a scholar.
	Henry died on 01.05.1887 aged 67 and Elizabeth died almost ten years later on 17.01.1897 aged 72. Both were buried in the family grave in Chedworth Congregational Church graveyard with three of their children, Fanny, Mary Ann, and Sophia. (see Headstone Epitaphs)
	3O19	Fanny Collett		Born on 31.12.1842
	3O20	Rhoda Collett		Born on 08.07.1845
	3O21	Amelia Collett		Born on 13.03.1847
	3O22	Betsy Collett		Born on 20.02.1849
	3O23	Mary Ann Collett		Born on 14.02.1851
	3O24	John Henry Collett		Born on 18.11.1853
	3O25	Sarah Collett		Born on 23.01.1856
	3O26	Eliza Ann Collett		Born on 25.07.1858
	3O27	Hubert Collett		Born on 12.06.1860
	3O28	Sophia Collett		Born on 01.12.1861
	3O29	Priscilla Collett		Born on 03.02.1864
	3O30	Henry Martin Collett		Born on 16.05.1867
	3O31	Ebenezer William Collett		Born on 06.12.1868
3N4	John Collett was born at Chedworth on 18.04.1822 and he was a grocer and mealman. During 1845 he married (1) Mary Ann Silk at Bristol and the following year their first child was born at Stonehouse near Stroud. The birth certificate for their daughter Martha Ann Collett confirmed the child’s parents as grocer John Collett and Mary Ann Collett formerly Silk.
	It was during the following year that the couple’s second child was born at Stonehouse, the child being baptised at Painswick as the son of John Collett and Mary Ann Collett formerly Silk. Not long after the birth of their first two children, John and Mary Ann emigrated to Australia with Martha and John, and it was there that the couple’s third child was born, at Donta Galla in Victoria.
	While the new arrival was still under two years of age, Mary Ann died in Victoria in 1853, possibly even during the birth of a further children who also did not survive. Faced with the prospect of living alone in a strange land with three young children to care for, John Collett decided to return to England.
	Once back in Gloucestershire, and nearly two years after the death of his first wife, John Collett married (2) Sarah Rowland at Charlton Kings near Cheltenham on 08.05.1855. That married produced a further four children for John who, by that time, had returned to his home village of Chedworth where the four children were born, the first of them being given the second Christian name of Rowland.
	Sarah Rowland (Ref. 10M5) was John’s first cousin once removed, she being the niece of Mary Rowland who married Henry Collett, who were the parents of this John Collett’s father Henry Collett (Ref. 2M23).
	Further details of the connections with the Rowland family line are provided in Part 2 (1550 to 1775) – The Secondary Line commencing with Henry Collett (Ref. 2L16) and Part 10 – Other Branch Lines commencing with reference 10M5 for Sarah Rowland
	By 1861 the family comprised John Collett, age 38 and born at Chedworth, who was working as a grocer and bacon factor, his wife Sarah, age 35 and from Sevenhampton, their sons Henry Collett, age 13 and a ploughboy who was born at Painswick, and John R Collett who was five and born at Chedworth, and their daughters Mary E Collett, who was 10 and born at Donta Galla in Victoria, and Ruth Collett who was two years old and also born at Chedworth.
	The family are known to have lived at High House in Chedworth, where it is assumed that all four of their children were born. Not living with the family on that occasion, but still living in Chedworth was the John’s first born child, Martha A Collett who was 15.
	Ten years later in 1871 the family comprised John 48, Sarah 45, John Rowland 15 now a grocer like his father, Clara 9, and Emily 7. Living with them at this time in 1871 was John’s sister Sarah Martha Gegg nee Collett (below) aged 38 a carpenter’s wife, and nieces Eliza Ann Gegg 13 and one year old Emily Constance Gegg, both of Hawling. John Collett was a prominent figure in Chedworth life around that time, as can be seen by the following.
	It was at the start of the following year that the residents of Chedworth began to discuss the shortage of available space for new graves at the village churchyard. As a result of their concerns, a Vestry meeting was held in the schoolhouse on 9^th February 1872 at which the main topic was the sale of a piece of waste land.
	The land belonged to the Highway in the Parish of Chedworth and had, until recently, been in the occupation of Mr. Avery Newman. It was proposed by Mr Theyer Townsend and seconded by Mr John Collett that the land be sold, and that a preference be given to the Reverend M Cunningham in the purchase of the said land. The proposal received the full support of all those present.
	The land, which was the subject of the discussion, was an old quarry just east of the former Congregational Chapel, although there is no evidence available to suggest that it was ever used as a graveyard. However, the following announcement was made by the Reverend Cunningham during the month of May that same year. This stated that:
	“The Burial Ground at the lower end of Chedworth being so very full, we have purchased a piece of land formerly belonging to this parish an exhausted stone quarry and, by altering the road and removing walls etc, under the direction of the Surveyor of Roads (Mr. Stephens) and the way-warden (Mr. Brunsden), have considerably enlarged the said burial place. This burial ground is open to all persons belonging to this village, and especially to those persons whose departed ones are enclosed therein, without respect to sect or party.”
	The announcement continued “This burial ground is not private property nor does the minister, nor any other, derive the least advantage from it whatever, as there are no charges, nor fees of any kind excepting three shillings which is paid to the Grave Opener. The expenses incurred in the purchase of the land and in making the alterations exceed £30; and any assistance rendered towards defraying the above sum by any person will be gratefully acknowledged.”
	According to the Chedworth Vestry Records a total of fifty-five local residents gave a donation towards to £30, the smallest contribution being six pence, up to £2, with a half crown being the most often given. The total amount of money raised through this exercise by the autumn of 1873 was Ten Pounds and One Shilling.
	Included in the list of donations were the following members of the Collett family: John Collett (Ref. 3N4) – 10s; his brother Henry Collett (above) – 3s; and Henry’s children Rhoda Collett (Ref. 3O20) – half crown, Amelia Collett (Ref. 3O21) half crown, Betsy Collett (Ref. 3O22) – 1s, Mary Ann Collett (Ref. 3O23) half crown, John Collett (Ref. 3O24) – 1s 6d; William Collett (Ref. 2N31) – 6s and his wife Mrs W Collett – 1s 6d.
	Three other Colletts were included on the list, but to date these have not been clearly identified, and they were Mary Collett and S Collett, who each gave a half crown, and S M S Collett who gave one shilling.
	Seven years later, according to the census of 1881, the three youngest daughters of grocer and mealman John Collett were all still living at the family home in Chedworth with their parents. Ruth was 21, Clara was 18, and Emily was 16, and the older two girls were listed as shop workers, who were presumably working in their father’s shop at that time.
	John and Sarah were still living at Chedworth ten years later when John was 68 and Sarah was 63. And still living in Chedworth were two of their unmarried daughters, Ruth age 32, and Clara who was 29. Within the next few years it is assumed that both John and Sarah passed away, since there is no record of either of them in the next census in 1901.
	3O32	Martha Ann Collett		Born on 30.04.1846
	3O33	Henry Collett		Born in 1847
	3O34	Mary Elizabeth Collett		Born in 1851 at Donta Galla, Victoria
	The following are the children of John Collett and his second wife Sarah Rowland:
	3O35	John Rowland Collett		Born in 1856
	3O36	Ruth Collett		Born in 1859
	3O37	Clara Collett		Born in 1862
	3O38	Emily Collett		Born in 1864
3N5	Philip Collett was born on 04.04.1826 at Chedworth. He died on 01.03.1844 and was buried at Chedworth as detailed on his gravestone. Philip is therefore the only child of Henry Collett (Ref. 2M18) not to be mentioned in his Will of 1850.
3N6	Mary Ann Collett was born on 17.06.1828 at Chedworth. She married Mr Norton and her Chedworth gravestone gives details that she died in America on 11.06.1851 as did her sister Eliza (below) five years later. Her husband was very likely her cousin and the son of Sophia Collett and George Norton (Ref. 2M17).
3N7	Sarah Collett was born at Chedworth on 05.12.1830 but died on 02.08.1831 aged just 9 months and was buried at the Congregational Chapel in Chedworth on 05.08.1831.
3N8	Sarah Martha Collett was born at Chedworth on 29.03.1832. At the age of twenty-three she married John Gegg of Hawling in 1855, Sarah being John’s first wife. John, who was baptised at Withington on 24.04.1831, was the eldest son of Joseph and Harriett Gegg.
	John was the first of three Gegg brothers to marry Collett girls. His younger brother Joseph Gegg married Sarah’s younger sister Jane Collett (below), while John’s youngest brother Charles Gegg married Martha Ann Collett who was the niece of the two Collett sisters.
	During his life John Gegg was a builder, a carpenter, and an estate agent to Lord Francis Pelham Clinton-Hope at Hawling in Gloucestershire.
	It would appear that the couple initially settled in Withington where their first child was born, but within two years the family was living at Hawling where their remaining children were born.
	By April 1861 the family living at Hawling comprised John Gegg who was 38, his wife Sarah Martha Gegg who was 28, and their first two children Mary Jane Gegg aged 4 and Eliza Ann Gegg aged 3. Also living with the family was niece Betsy Collett (Ref. 3O22) aged 12 and of Chedworth, who was the daughter of Sarah’s brother Henry Collett (above).
	At that time John Gegg was listed as a carpenter and builder who had been born at Withington, while Sarah’s place of birth was confirmed as Chedworth. In addition to Sarah’s niece, also living with them on that occasion were two members of her husband’s family. These were John’s mother Harriett Gegg aged 54 of Withington and his brother Charles Gegg aged 16 of Withington. Harriett was still recorded as being married as he husband Joseph was at the family home in Withington at that time.
	While being residents of Hawling, John and Sarah and their family lived in a private house where the couple remained for the rest of their lives together. During the 1860s the couple were blessed with the birth of two sons, although tragically the older child did not survive.
	For the census of 1871, Sarah Martha Gegg was listed as visiting the Chedworth home of her brother John Collett (above) where she was aged 38 and was described as a carpenter’s wife. With her were two of her daughters Eliza Ann Gegg 13 and Emily Constance Gegg who was one year old.
	At that same time John was 48 and was at home in Hawling with his daughter Jane who was 14. Both were confirmed as having been born at Withington.
	In April 1881 carpenter John Gegg of Withington aged 50, had eight men working for him at Hawling. His family at this time comprised his wife Sarah 48, and four of his five children. These were dressmaker Eliza Annie Gegg aged 23, Emily 11, Sarah 9, and George who was 8. The missing child was the couple’s eldest daughter Mary Jane Gegg who, at the age of 24, was probably married by then.
	Ten years later, according to the census of 1891, John Gegg was sixty years of age, Sarah M Gegg was 58, and still living with them at Hawling was their daughter Sarah. She was recorded as being 19 and of Hawling. By that time John’s youngest son George Lambert Gegg was 18 and had left the family home in Hawling and was living and working in Gloucester. It was during the next decade that Sarah Martha Gegg died at the age of sixty-three. This happened at Hawling on 09.11.1895. Judging by her appearance in the photograph of her on the right, it seems very likely that it was taken only a few years before she died, perhaps even on the occasion of the marriage on one of her older daughters.
	Sometime during the next ten years two things happened in John’s life. One of them was that his daughter Sarah left the family home in Hawling, and the other was that John married (2) Margaret Reeve in 1898. Four years later, Margaret’s sister Jane Reeve married John’s brother Joseph, following the death of his wife Jane Gegg formerly Collett (below)
	John was still living at Hawling in March 1901 and at the age of 70 he was described as an ‘employer’. Living with him was his new wife Margaret Gegg who said she 54 and from Charlton near Malmesbury. Margaret had inflated her age by five years since her actual age at that time was 49.
	Also living at Hawling at that same time was John’s youngest son who was using his second name of Lambert. He was married by then and had a wife and three children of his own.
	John Gegg died on 08.07.1908 so by the time of the Chedworth census of 1911 Margaret was a widow. On this occasion she gave her age correctly as 59 and her place of birth was once again confirmed as Charlton.
	This age corresponded with her age of 29 thirty years earlier in 1881 when she was living at Pink Lane in Charlton with her brother farmer Charles and sister Lucy, both girls being described as farmer’s daughters. Their parents were James and Elizabeth Reeve who, at that time, were living at Bowling Green Farm in Cirencester with the rest of their siblings including their youngest sister Jane Reeve 18.
	Margaret was approaching her eightieth birthday when she died on 23.01.1932.
	Prior to his marriage to Sarah Martha Collett when he was 20 years old, John Gegg was an apprentice carpenter working with Richard Margetts in Withington. Richard, who was baptised on 04.12.1808, was the son of James and Ann (nee Maisey) Margetts and was the cousin of Mary Ann Margetts who married Henry Collett (Ref. 2M22).
	The Maisey family was also connected to the Rowland family of Naunton as detailed in Part Ten – Other Branch Lines under Ref. 10L6 Rowl.
	It may be of interest that the Margetts name appears again as a further link to the Collett family in Part Nine – The Aldsworth Line (see Ref. 9O15)
	3O39	Mary Jane Gegg		Born in 1856 at Withington
	3O40	Eliza Annie Gegg		Born in 1858 at Hawling
	3O41	Emily Constance Gegg		Born in 1869 at Hawling
	3O42	Sarah Blanche Gegg		Born on 18.07.1871
	3O43	George Lambert Gegg		Born in 1873
3N9	Eliza Collett was born on 18.06.1834 at Chedworth where she married David Trotman on 04.07.1853. The witnesses at her wedding were her uncle William Collett (Ref. 2M14 or 2M27) her father having already died, her sister Jane Collett (below) and Elizabeth Margetts a relation of her father’s wife.
	At the time of the marriage David, the son of John Trotman, was a bachelor and a labourer. The couple emigrated to America after they were married and tragically that was where Eliza died on 20.05.1856.
	Her gravestone at Chedworth confirms the details that she died in America just three years after she was married, as did her sister Mary Ann (above) who had passed away five years earlier. Three years later, on 05.07.1859, David Trotman was married to Esther Hall at which time he was recorded as being a widower and a labourer.
	The Trotman name also occurred in 1817 in Part One – The Main Line 1800 to 1880 (Ref. 1M3).
3N10	JANE COLLETT was born on 15.12.1835 at Chedworth. She later married Joseph Gegg on 22.09.1858 at Sheep Street Chapel in Cirencester. Joseph, who was baptised on 23.06.1833 at Withington, was the son of Joseph and Harriett Gegg and the younger brother of John Gegg who married Jane’s older sister Sarah Martha Collett (above). It is not known when this photograph of Jane was taken, although it may have been on the occasion of her marriage to Joseph Gegg.
	Charles Gegg, the youngest brother of both Joseph and John Gegg, married Martha Ann Collett (below) the niece of Jane and Sarah Martha Collett.
	Jane’s husband Joseph Gegg was a grocer in Cirencester from 1859 to 1912 where he died on 11.08.1922. Although the couple lived all of their life together at Cirencester, all of their children were born at Chedworth, where one of them also died.
	According to the census of 1871 for Cirencester Joseph was 37, Jane was 34, and listed with them were their three surviving children Eliza K Gegg 11, Joseph H Gegg 9, and Alfred F Gegg who was seven, with the couple’s youngest daughter having suffered an infant death two years earlier.
	Ten years later, at the time of the 1881 Census, the family was living at 183 Gloucester Road in Cirencester and was listed as grocer Joseph aged 47 of Withington, his wife Jane 44 of Chedworth, and their four children Eliza 21, Joseph 20, Alfred 17, and Frederick aged nine.
	Jane Gegg died in Cirencester on 02.04.1898 while she and her husband were living at 11 Tower Street. By March 1901 widower Joseph Gegg of Withington was 67 and was living at Cirencester where he was described as a retired grocer.
	Following the death of his wife, Joseph Gegg married the much younger Jane Reeve in 1902. Jane was the sister of Margaret Reeve who had already married Joseph’s widowed brother John Gegg (above) in 1898. Jane was born at Charlton near Malmesbury in 1862 and was the youngest daughter of farmer James Reeve who managed the 160 acre Bowling Green Farm at Cirencester.
	Nine years later in April 1911 Joseph was 77 and was still living in Cirencester with his much younger wife Jane Gegg who was 53. In just the same way that her sister Margaret had inflated her age by five years in the 1901 Census, Jane did exactly the same by saying she was 53 when in fact she was 48.
	The father of Joseph Gegg, John Gegg (above), and Charles Gegg (below) was Joseph Gegg (senior). He was born at Shipton Oliffe in 1798 and died in 1888. He was a shoemaker in Withington eight miles north of Cirencester. He married Harriett Taylor (1806 to 1887) at Withington on 27.09.1826 and was involved in the foundation and running of the Methodist Church.
	Other children of this marriage were: Henry Gegg baptised on 20.05.1827, Richard Gegg baptised on 21.02.1829 who was later a baker and grocer, Reuben Gegg baptised on 15.09.1835, and Elizabeth Gegg (see below), all of whom were born at Withington.
	In 1881 Joseph Gegg (senior) was a retired shoemaker, and living with him and his wife Harriett at Withington was their grandson John B Gegg who was working with his grandfather as a shoemaker’s apprentice. John B Gegg was born on 21.06.1865 and was the base born son of Joseph’s and Harriett’s daughter Elizabeth Gegg, the boy’s father being John Bowls, a farmer’s son from Withington.
	3O44	Eliza Kate Gegg	Born in 1859
	3O45	JOSEPH HENRY GEGG	Born in 1861
	3O46	Alfred Frank Gegg	Born in 1863
	3O47	Emily Minnie Gegg	Born in 1866 and died in 1869 at Chedworth
	3O48	Frederick George Gegg	Born in 1871
3O1	Jane Collett, who was also known as Amy Jane, was born at Naunton around June 1840. On 20.11.1871 at St Peter’s Parish Church in Cheltenham she married James Thomas Smith, a railways goods checker. James was born in December 1846 at Longcot near Faringdon in Berkshire where he was christened on 03.01.1847. He was the son of John Smith and Mary Townsend.
	By 1881 Amy and James had moved to Birmingham and were living at 44 Half Cardigan Street in Aston with their five of their six children. Also living with the family was Amy’s brother Fred Collett (below) who was also a railway goods porter. At a later time Amy and James lived at Great Smith Street.
	Five of their six children were born while they were living in Birmingham. Only Theodore the oldest child was born at Brize Norton near Witney in Oxfordshire.
	According to the 1871 Census for Brize Norton, James was a groom and this was his stated occupation at the time of his marriage to Amy.
	Amy died in 1924.
	3P1	Theodore Lovedin Smith		Born in June 1872
	3P2	Eliza Annie Smith		Born in March 1873
	3P3	Mary Aminda Smith		Born in March 1875
	3P4	Albert Jack Smith		Born in 1876
	3P5	Katherine E Smith		Born in 1877
	3P6	Amy Grace Smith		Born in 1878
3O3	Walter Collett was believed to have been born at Lower Slaughter during December 1842, the birth being registered at Stow-on-the-Wold that year. However, for some reason he was not baptised until in his twenties. What is known is that he was baptised at Shipton Oliffe & Shipton Sollars on 19.03.1865 just one week before his half brother Henry Collett (below) was also baptised there.
	Over the years following his birth Walter was recorded as living at Naunton in 1851 aged 8 and born at Lower Slaughter, and at Chedworth in 1861 where he was an apprentice boot and shoe maker at the home of his boot and shoe maker uncle Henry Collett (Ref. 3N3). In the census that year he gave his place of birth as Naunton and his age as being 18 years.
	Ten years later in 1871 Walter was now a cordwainer, was single and a lodger at the home of John Swallow and his wife Jane at Fox Hill in Guiting Power. Jane’s maiden name was Dowler and she was the aunt to the lady that Walter would eventually marry.
	Curiously in the Census of 1881 Walter, still unmarried, gave his age as 34 and place of birth as Andoversford which is only a mile from Shipton Oliffe & Shipton Sollars where he was baptised. At that time in 1881 his occupation was a cordwainer and he was a boarder at the Cross Keys Inn in Cross Keys Lane in Gloucester St Mary Crypt where the landlord and father of two children was John Evans of Treforest.
	Walter Collett married Sarah Anne Dowler (Ref. 10O1) on 12.03.1891 at Winchcombe. Sarah was the daughter of herdsman William Dowler of Naunton and Anne Preston of Sevenhampton. She was born at Brockhampton on 26.02.1851, the birth being registered at Northleach. She was baptised one month later at St Andrew’s Church in nearby Sevenhampton on 23.03.1851.
	In her previous years she was recorded as living at Brockhampton in 1851, at Roel (?) in Gloucestershire in 1861, and at Kineton near Temple Guiting in 1871. On 11^th April 1874 Sarah was a witness at the wedding of her brother John Dowler and Phoebe Woodward at St James’ Church in Longborough near Bourton-on-the-Water.
	At the end of 1877 Sarah gave birth to a base born child and it may have been this event that forced the family to leave Gloucestershire. By 1878 the Dowler family had moved to neighbouring Warwickshire and were living at High Furze Farm in Shipston-on-Stour where Sarah was a domestic cook. By the time of the next census in 1881 the family had moved again, this time to Tidmington, one mile south of Shipston.
	Their surname was recorded incorrectly as Dowles and they were living at Highfurze in Tidmington. Sarah, who was now aged 30, gave her place of birth as Sevenhampton and she was still working as a cook domestic for her herdsman father William Dowler and his wife and family.
	Also listed as living with the Dowler family in 1881 was Sarah Ann's illegitimate daughter Bertha Maud Dowler aged 4 who was born on 29.12.1877 at Winchcombe. The child’s birth certificate did not reveal the name of the father.
	Twenty-four days after they were married, Walter and Sarah were living at North Street in Winchcombe as recorded in the census carried out on 5^th April 1891 and in which Walter was listed as a shoemaker aged 46, while Sarah was aged 40 and of Brockhampton.
	At the same time in 1891 Sarah’s 13 years old daughter Bertha was also living in Winchcombe, but with her grandparents William and Anne Dowler (Ref. 10N6 Rowl) in Part Ten – Other Branch Lines.
	Ten years later on 31^st March 1901, Walter and his wife Annie (Sarah) were living at Longborough just north of Stow-on-the Wold with their only daughter Beatrice aged 8 who was born at Winchcombe. Walter now aged 57 and of Lower Slaughter was still working as a shoemaker, while Annie was listed as aged 49 of Brockhampton.
	By the time of the census of 1911 Walter had died, while Sarah and daughter Beatrice had left Longborough and were living in the Evesham registration district. The census recorded that Sarah Anne Collett of Brockhampton was a widow at 59, and that her daughter was 18 and from Winchcombe.
	It should be noted that both Walter Collett and Sarah Anne Dowler were the great great grandchildren of William Rowland (Ref. 10K1) and Mary Stiles.
	See Part Ten – Other Branch Lines for full details of the connection between the two families.
	3P7	Bertha Maud Dowler		Born 29.12.1877
	3P8	Beatrice Collett		Born on 17.09.1892
3O6	Henry Thruby Collett was born at Naunton in 1858 and was baptised at Shipton Oliffe & Shipton Sollars near Andoversford in Gloucestershire over fifteen years later on 26.03.1865. At the time of the 1881 Census which took place on 3^rd April that year, Henry aged 22 was a labourer and was still living with his parents Richard (Ref. 3N1) aged 63 and Mary Ann aged 51, and his sisters Charlotte aged 12 and Ada aged 8, at Middle Row Woodman Inn at Bourton-on-the Water.
	By 1901 Henry was married to Henrietta from Frampton-on-Severn and was living in Gloucester where he worked for the Great Western Railway as a platelayer. Henry was aged 42 and Henrietta 40. There were children from the marriage, but so far undetermined.
	Ten years later in April 1911, Henry ‘Truby’ Collett of Naunton was 52, and his wife Henrietta was 50, and they were still living in Gloucester.
3O7	Fred W Collett was born in 1860 at Naunton and by 1881 he was living at the Birmingham home of his sister Amy Jane Smith nee Collett (above) at 44 Half Cardigan Street in Aston. At that time he was working as a railway goods porter.
	Twenty years later he was 40 and was listed in the 1901 Census as Frederick W Collett living in the Birmingham area where he was still working for the railways. And it was as Fred W Collett of Naunton aged 50, that he was still living at Aston in April 1911.
3O10	Robert Collett was born on 01.12.1842 at Caudle Green near Cheltenham, but was later baptised at the Chedworth Congregational Chapel on 09.07.1843, even though his parents were still living at Caudle Green when his sister Adolpha (below) was born. He was the eldest child of Robert and Martha Collett of Chedworth and he was eight years old in 1851, when he was living with his family at Gadbridge in Chedworth.
	The whereabouts of Robert Collett, age 18, at the time of the census in 1861 has not been determined, but by 1871 he was married and was living within the Kingsholm district of Gloucester. Robert Collett was 28, and his wife was Jane from Cirencester who was 27.
	By that time in their life, Jane had already presented Robert with the first of their children, Mary J Collett who was still under one year old. Living with the family of three on that occasion was Robert’s younger sister Mary Ann Collett who was 13, and who was presumably helping his wife look after their baby.
	However, it would appear from the next census in 1881, that Mary A Collett was not the couple’s first child, since in that year’s census Mary had an older brother. He was Henry, who back in 1871 may have been Harry Collett who was two years old and who was living within the Cirencester registration, perhaps even staying with his maternal grandparents, following the recent birth of his sister Mary.
	The full census in 1881 recorded the family living at Fosse Bridge Villa on the Oxford Road in North Hamlet of Gloucester city. Robert Collett, age 38 and from Caudle Green, was employed as a turn-cock at the local waterworks, his wife Jane was 37 and from Cirencester, and with them on that occasion was six children.
	They were Henry G Collett, who was 12 and born at North Cerney, Mary J Collett who was 10 and born in Gloucester, as were Frederick W Collett who was seven, Ellen L Collett who was four, Robert S Collett who was two, and Martha K Collett who was five months old. Jane would appear to have been with-child on the day of the census since at the end of that year or very early in the following year she gave birth to another daughter.
	Two further children were added to the family over the four years after that but then, tragically it would seem, that Robert Collett died before the end of the decade, since by the time of the census in 1891 and again in 1901 his wife Jane Collett was recorded as a widow.
	Jane Collett was 47 in April 1891, when she was living in the St John the Baptist district of Gloucester. Living there with her were her five youngest children, together with her eldest son who was listed as Harry Collett aged 22. The other children were Ellen who was 14, Robert who was 12, Kate who was nine, Emily who was eight, and Albert who was five years old.
	This raises some questions. Had Martha K Collett, age 5 months in 1881, died during her first year? Had the couple’s next child been given the name Kate after her deceased older sister? Or were the two names in the two census returns a reference to just one child, with her age being recorded in error as nine in 1891, when she was actually ten. The latter is the favoured option, since in 1901 there was a Kate M Collett living in Gloucester who was 21.
	The two children missing from the Collett household on that occasion in 1891 were Jane’s eldest daughter Mary and her second oldest son Frederick, were both living within the Kingsholm area of Gloucester at that same time, where the family had been living twenty years earlier.
	By March 1901, widow Jane Collett, age 57 and from Cirencester, was living at 87 Oxford Road in the parish of St Catherine in Gloucester. She was not listed with any occupation, and living with her then were just two of her children, and they were Ellen Collett who was 24, and Albert E Collett who was 15.
	With her daughter Ellen moving to Cheltenham during the first decade of the new century, Jane Collett, age 69, was living alone in Gloucester in April 1911, although it still needs to be confirmed that this was the widow of the late Robert Collett.
	3P9	Henry G Collett		Born in 1868 at North Cerney
	3P10	Mary Jane Collett		Born in 1870 at Gloucester
	3P11	Frederick William Collett		Born in 1873 at Gloucester
	3P12	Ellen Louisa Collett		Born in 1876 at Gloucester
	3P13	Robert S Collett		Born in 1878 at Gloucester
	3P14	Martha Kate Collett (or Kate Martha)		Born in 1880 at Gloucester
	3P15	Emily Collett		Born in 1883 at Gloucester
	3P16	Albert Edward Collett		Born in 1885 at Gloucester
3O11	Adolpha Collett was born at Caudle Green on 19.03.1844, although she was baptised at the Chedworth Congregational Chapel on 26.05.1844, the eldest daughter of Robert and Martha Collett of Chedworth. It would appear that sometime during the following year her family left Caudle Green and settled in Northleach where they lived until the end of 1849.
	By the time of the census in 1851, Adolpha and her family were living at Gadbridge in Chedworth where she was seven years old. At the age of 17, Adolpha had left Chedworth and was living within the Cirencester area according to the census of 1861. It was around five years later that she married William Groom, and their first son was born at Saxmundham in Suffolk, before the family moved to Cheltenham, where the couple’s next three sons were born.
	By 1881 Adolpha Groom, age 37 and from Chedworth, was a dressmaker living with her husband William Groom, age 40, who was a baker from Loddon in Norfolk. At that time they and their family were living at 3 Painswick Lawn Cottages in Cheltenham, their four sons being Alfred Groom, Edward Groom, William Groom, and Philip Groom.
	It was at Chedworth just over three years later, that Adolpha gave birth to daughter, Harriett, who was born on 23.11.1884. Upon being baptised at Chedworth Independent Church on 14.08.1887, her father was listed in the Register of Baptisms as ‘William Groom of Cheltenham’.
3O12	Ann Collett was born at Northleach on 17.10.1845. Perhaps for health reasons, her baptism was delayed by over six years, when on 02.05.1852, she was baptised in a combined ceremony at the Chedworth Congregational Chapel with her two much younger siblings, Sarah Martha Collett, and Philip Henry Collett (both below).
	Although not listed as living at the home of her parents at Gadbridge in Chedworth in 1851, she was in fact living nearby at the home of her grandmother and widow, Ann Spencer, where she was listed as being four years old 4 and born at Northleach.
	She later returned to the family home in Chedworth, and it was there that she was living in 1861, when she was 15, and again in 1871, when she was 24. In the latter census return she was described as Ann Collett and her occupation was given as servant, while still living with her parents as their oldest child. With no record of her in the census of 1881 as Ann Collett, it may be safe to assume that she was married by then.
3O13	Hannah Maria Collett was born in 1848 at Northleach, but within two years she and her family were living in Chedworth. The Chedworth census of 1851 listed her as Anna Collett of Northleach, age three years, who was living with her parents at Gadbridge in Chedworth.
	She was still living there ten years later when, in the census return for 1861, she was recorded as Hannah M Collett who was 13, but after a further ten years she was no longer living at Chedworth with her family. So it is possible that she may have been married by then, at the age of 23.
3O14	Sarah Martha Collett was born on 31.10.1849 at Northleach and was baptised at the Chedworth Congregational Chapel on 02.05.1852 in a joint ceremony with her sister Ann Collett (above) and brother Philip Henry Collett (below).
	Sarah Collett was one year old in the census of 1851, when she was living at Gadbridge in Chedworth with her family. It was there also that she was living ten years later, when she was recorded as Sarah M Collett who was 11 years old. Like her sister Hannah (above, Sarah was also missing from the family home in Chedworth in 1871, so she too might have been married by that time, even at 21.
3O15	Philip Henry Collett was born at Gadbridge in Chedworth on 25.03.1852 and was baptised at the Chedworth Independent Church on 02.05.1852. He appeared in the Chedworth census of 1861 as Philip H Collett aged nine years, and again in the next census for Chedworth in 1871, when he was 19. On leaving school he became a shoemaker, working with his father Robert, as confirmed by the census in 1871.
	It was around five years later that Philip married Catherine May, and their first two children were both baptised at Chedworth Congregational Chapel. Philip and Catherine were recorded in the Register of Baptisms as being ‘of Cheltenham’ for both of their children, even though their son was born at Birmingham, while their daughter was born after the couple had settled in Cheltenham.
	In 1881 the family was living at 2 Portman Terrace in Cheltenham, when the census return confirmed that Philip H Collett, age 29 and from Chedworth, was a boot and shoemaker, while his wife Catherine M Collett, age 30, was born at Road in Somerset. Their two children were listed as Robert H Collett aged three years and from Birmingham, and Kate M Collett who was under one year old and from Cheltenham. It was during the following year that Catherine presented Philip with their third child, while the family was still living in Cheltenham.
	There may have been other child born into the family after that, but by 1888 when the couple’s last child was born the family was living at Birley in Surrey. However, not long after that Philip’s work took him to the Oxfordshire village of Kingham, which lies midway between Stow-on-the-Wold and Chipping Norton. And it was there that the family was living at the time of the next census in 1891.
	It would also appear from the census return that the couple’s only daughter Kate had suffered an infant death not long after the census day in 1881. So the family living at Kingham in 1891 comprised Philip H Collett, age 39, his wife Catherine M Collett, age 40, and their three sons Robert H Collett, age 13, Frederick W Collett, who was eight, and Philip D Collett who was two years old and born in Surrey.
	Ten years later, when the census of 1901 was conducted the family was still living in Kingham, by which time the couple’s eldest son Robert appears to have been out of the country in 1901, perhaps even serving abroad with the army. So, on that occasion, the remainder of family was recorded as Philip H Collett, age 49 and from Chedworth, who was a superintendent of house, his wife Catherine M Collett, age 50 who was working at the same establishment as the matron, and their two youngest sons who were listed as Frederic W Collett, age 18 from Cheltenham, who was a publisher’s assistant, and Douglas Collett who was from Birley in Surrey who was still attending school at the age of 12.
	Over the following decade it would appear that Philip’s and Catherine’s youngest son left home to be married, and that event may have coincided with the family’s move back to the Midlands, and the Shirley area to the west of Solihull where Philip Collett from Chedworth was 59, his wife Catherine Collett from Road in Somerset was 60, and their unmarried son Frederick Collett, age 28 and from Cheltenham were living in April 1911.
	3P17	Robert Henry Collett		Born on 01.09.1877 at Birmingham
	3P18	Kate Marianne Collett		Born on 10.05.1880 at Cheltenham
	3P19	Frederick W Collett		Born during 1882 at Cheltenham
	3P20	Philip Douglas Collett		Born during 1888 at Birley, Surrey
3O16	Alfred Collett was born on 06.02.1855 at Chedworth and was baptised at the Chedworth Congregational Chapel on 08.04.1855, the son of Robert and Martha Collett. However, with no record of him living with his family at Chedworth in any subsequent census, it is highly likely that he did not survive.
3O17	Mary Ann Collett was born at Chedworth on 20.02.1858, but was baptised at the Chedworth Independent Church nearly three years later on 04.11.1860. She was baptised in a joint ceremony with her younger sister Jane Collett (below). By the time of the Chedworth census in 1861 Mary A Collett was listed with her parents as being three years old.
	Ten years later in 1871, Mary A Collett, who was 13 and from Chedworth, was living with her married brother Robert Collett at his home in the Kingsholm district of Gloucester, following the birth of his first child, also named Mary A Collett.
	By 1881, at the age of 23, Mary Ann Collett of Chedworth, was unmarried and was a servant and a nurse maid at the home of Daniel Rutter Pitt, a provisions merchant, at 93 Dyer Street in Cirencester. It is not clear where she was at the time of the census in 1891 but, by April 1901, she was still a spinster and was then a domestic cook working and living in Cirencester.
3O18	Jane Collett was born at Chedworth on 04.09.1860 and was baptised at the Chedworth Independent Church on 04.11.1860 the same day as her sister Mary Ann (above). Jane was the youngest child of Robert and Martha Collett, and was under one year old at the time of the census in 1861, when she was living at Chedworth with her family.
	She was still living there ten years later in 1871, when she was 10 years old.
3O19	Fanny Collett was base born on 31.12.1842 at Chedworth, almost two years before her mother Elizabeth Collett (Ref. 2N27) married Henry Collett (Ref. 3N3) her cousin.
	It might appear that Fanny was in some way rejected by her mother’s new family as, in 1851, she was living with her widowed grandfather Robert Collett (Ref. 2M22) aged 8 and in 1861 she was living at the home of 83 years old widow and fund holder Elizabeth Wilson of Chedworth. Elizabeth was a ‘venerable widow and owner of Fields Farm’ and the mother of Robert Collett’s late wife Sarah Wilson.
	Fanny never really had the opportunity to marry as she died four months before her twenty-first birthday on 24.08.1863. She was buried in the family grave in the graveyard of Chedworth Congregational Church with her mother Elizabeth Collett (Ref. 2N27), Henry Collett (Ref. 3N3) and his daughters – her half-sisters Mary Ann Collett (below), and Sophia Collett (below). (see Headstone Epitaphs)
3O20	Rhoda Collett was born on 08.07.1845 at Chedworth as a ‘honeymoon’ baby, being born exactly nine months after the marriage of her parents. She herself never married and lived at Badger Cottage on Chapel Hill in Chedworth with her brother John Henry Collett (Ref. 3O24). She died on 15.05.1940 aged 95 and was buried in the family grave in the graveyard of Chedworth Congregational Church along with her brother John Henry Collett (Ref. 3O24) and sister Eliza Ann Collett (below). (see Headstone Epitaphs)
	In 1881 she was the servant at 3 Chesterton Terrace in Cirencester, the home of 73 years old Eliza Brewin a lady of independent means. By 1901 she was housekeeper to her brother John Henry Collett (below), and by April 1911 she was 65 and living at Chedworth, where she was born. The picture on the right is Badger Cottage in Chedworth where Rhoda lived most of her life with her brother John. The photograph was taken during the summer of 2010 and was kindly provided by Barbara Edmonds and Michael Stuart Collett (Ref. 3R7).
3O21	Amelia Collett, known as Melly by the family, was born on 13.03.1847 at Chedworth, where she married Andrew Lloyd Scotford in 1874. Andrew was also born at Chedworth, on 12.03.1844, the son of Thomas and Emily Scotford, and it was there also that he was baptised on 14.04.1844. According to the Chedworth census of 1881, Andrew was a carpenter who was 37 who had been born at Chedworth, while his wife Amelia was 34. Living with the couple were their four children, who were all born at Chedworth. At that time in 1881, the family was living at Hill Close in Chedworth.
	Their four children on that occasion were Mary Scotford who was six, Andrew Scotford who was five, Agnes Scotford who was one year old, and baby Flora Scotford who was just five 5 months. Four more children were added to the family during the next eight years, but then tragedy struck the family, when Andrew died in 1888.
	So by the time of the Chedworth census in 1891 Amelia Scotford, age 44, was a widow who had seven of her eight children living there with her. And they were Andrew H Scotford 15, Agnes E Scotford 11, Flora E Scotford 10, Fanny E Scotford who was eight, Sophia A Scotford who was six, John L Scotford who was four, and Ellen C Scotford who was one year old.
	Amelia Scotford was still living at Chedworth in March 1901 when she was 54. By that time she only had three of her eight children living with her, the youngest of whom was John L Scotford who was 14 and a teamster working on a farm. This very likely indicates that Amelia eighth children had suffered an infant death, otherwise Ellen Scotford would have been eleven years old
	The two other children were Agnes Scotford, who was 21, and Sophia Scotford who was 16. Of her other children, eldest son Andrew Henry Scotford, age 25, was an asylum attendant, and Fanny Scotford, age 18, was a general domestic servant living and working in Cirencester.
	Ten years later in April 1911, Amelia was 64 and the only member of her family still living with her was her youngest surviving child, John Lloyd Scotford who was 24. Amelia spent the last thirty-five years of her life as a widow, which came to an end when she died in 1923.
	This is the family line of Bob and Ann Scotford of Severn Beach near Bristol.
3O22	Betsy Collett was born at Chedworth on 20.02.1849. At the age of 12 she was listed in the 1861 Census and was described as the niece and visitor at the Hawling home of John Gegg a carpenter and builder from Withington. John had previously married Sarah Martha Collett (Ref. 3N8) who was Betsy’s aunty. By the time she was 22 in 1871 Betsy was working as a servant at the home of James Lawrence, a commercial traveller from Nailsworth, and his family in the Chesterton Tything district of Cirencester.
	In the Census of 1881 she was referred to as Betty and was working as a housemaid/domestic at 2 Oakley Villa in Cirencester, the home of William Brewin a retired seed merchant.
	In 1884 she became the second wife of William King who was eleven years older than Betsy. He was a baker in Cirencester who was born in 1838 and who already had a son Joe from his previous marriage. His marriage to Betsy produced a daughter Nell King and a son William King who later became a literary critic and buyer for Blackwell’s Book Shop in Oxford.
	In April 1911 Betsy of Chedworth was 62, and her husband William was 73, and at that time the couple were living at Axminster in Devon.
	After her husband died in 1917 Betsy moved back to Chedworth to live with her sister Mary Ann (below) at Gilgal at the top of Pancake Hill. Also following the death, William’s son Joe took over management of the family bakery business in Cirencester.
	Betsy died on 17.01.1936 aged 86 and was buried in a tomb in Chedworth Independent Chapel graveyard. (see Headstone Epitaphs)
3O23	Mary Ann Collett, also known as Polly, was born on 14.02.1851 at Chedworth and was 8 and 18 respectively in the census records for Chedworth in 1861 and 1871. However, no record of Mary Ann (or Polly) has been found in the later census records of 1901 and 1911. She never married and died on 01.12.1923 when she was 72 years of age. She was buried in the family grave in the churchyard of Chedworth Congregational Church with her parents Elizabeth Collett (Ref. 2N27) and Henry Collett (Ref. 3N3), her sister Sophia (below), and half-sister Fanny (above). (see Headstone Epitaphs)
3O24	John Henry Collett was born on 18.11.1853 at Chedworth, where he died on 16.04.1937 aged 84. According to the census returns for both 1881 and 1891 he was listed as a shoemaker living at Badger Cottage at the bottom of Chapel Hill in Chedworth. In 1901 he was listed as being a boot maker with his own account working at home, where his sister Rhoda Collett (above) was his housekeeper. It would appear that he never married and at the age of 57 he was still living at Chedworth in 1911 with just his sister Rhoda Collett for company.
	Following his death in 1937, John Henry Collett was buried in the family grave in the churchyard of Chedworth Congregational Church with his sisters Rhoda Collett and Eliza Ann Collett (below). (see Headstone Epitaphs)
3O25	Sarah Collett was born at Chedworth on 23.01.1856. In the 1871 Census she was aged 15 and was a servant at the home of widow Mary Sly aged 62 a farmer of 9 acres at Chedworth. Sarah later married Thomas Maguire and they lived at Perth in Scotland. She only returned to live in Chedworth following the death of her husband in 1920 and it was there that Sarah died in 1946.
3O26	Eliza Ann Collett was born at Chedworth on 25.07.1858. By 1881, at the age of 22, she was working as a maid at 5 Keynsham Bank in Cheltenham the home of Henry Humphries a builder and surveyor employing 51 men. Ten years later she was 32 and was still living and working in Cheltenham, and at the time of the 1891 Census her two brothers Hubert and Henry (below) were both staying with her.
	Sometime after this Eliza left Cheltenham and exchanged Gloucestershire for Surrey where she was living at the end of March 1901. Her place of birth was confirmed as Chedworth, and she was 42 and was still working in domestic service at Hook near Chessington.
	She never married and five years later in 1906 she was living at ‘Old Dene’ in Dorking where she was nanny to Harry Hylton-Foster. Harry later became Sir Harry Hylton-Foster the Speaker of the House of Commons from 1959 until he died on 02.09.1965.
	This was confirmed five years later in the April census of 1911. In this Eliza was recorded as being 52 and from Chedworth in Gloucestershire.
	Sir Harry was married to the daughter of the First Viscount Ruffside [Clifton Brown] who was the Speaker from 1943 to 1951. Eliza eventually returned to Chedworth where she lived with her sister Rhoda and her brother John Henry (both above).
	Eliza Ann Collett died on 25.06.1946 when she was 87 years of age. She was buried in a family grave in the churchyard of Chedworth Congregational Church with her siblings Rhoda and John Henry. (see Headstone Epitaphs)
3O27	Hubert Collett was born at Chedworth on 12.06.1860 and was ten years old in the Chedworth census of 1871. Within the next decade he left school and moved out of the family home and moved to south Wales. At the age of 20 he was working as a telegraph clerk in Aberavon in Glamorgan and was residing at a large house in the High Street there. Within the next ten years he returned to the Cheltenham area where he was living and working in 1891 at the age of thirty. At that time he was living with his sister Eliza (above) and his younger brother Henry Martin Collett (below). Shortly after 5^th April that year he married Hannah Phillipine Cross with whom he had two children during the next four years.
	Hannah was born on 15.09.1869 at Kimbolton near Leominster in Herefordshire and was the daughter of farmer John Cross of Pudleston near Leominster and his wife Phillipine who was born at Calais in France. Hubert and Hannah initially settled in Cheltenham where their daughter was born, before moving the short distance east to Charlton Kings where their son was born.
	It seems very likely that it was Hubert’s work that was the reason for his absence from the family at the time of the census of 1901. On this occasion Hannah P Collett aged 31 was living in Charlton Kings with her two children, Anne P Collett aged 8 and Cecil J Collett aged 5.
	The next census in April 1911 confirmed that Hubert was employed as a civil servant and was fifty years old and born at Chedworth. The census details also confirmed that he and his family were living at a house named ‘St Brandon’ on Haywards Road in Charlton Kings.
	Hubert had been married for 19 years to Hannah Phillipine Collett aged 41 of Kimbolton in Herefordshire, and their two children were described as Anne Priscilla Collett aged 18 of Cheltenham and Cecil John Collett aged 15 of Charlton Kings.
	Very little else is known about Hubert except it is established that he sat on the jury at the inquest into the death of a woodsman named Isaac Norman, who was killed in an accident in 1889.
	However, it is known that Hubert died in 1940.
	3P21	Annie Priscilla Collett		Born in 1892
	3P22	Cecil John Collett		Born in 1895
3O28	Sophia Collett was born at Chedworth on 01.12.1861 and was referred to Sophy for must of her life. She never married like so many other members of her family before her. Sophy died on 12.01.1885 when she was only 23 years of age. She was buried in a family grave in the churchyard of Chedworth Congregational Church with her parents Elizabeth Collett (Ref. 2N27) and Henry Collett (Ref. 3N3), her sister Mary Ann and half-sister Fanny (both above). (see Headstone Epitaphs)
3O29	Priscilla Collett was born at Chedworth on 03.02.1864 and was known as Prit within the family. She married Oliver Bliss who was a carpenter by trade and who like Prit was also born in Chedworth during 1864. The marriage produced for the couple: three sons, Alec (born 1899), Allen (born 1902), and Geoffrey (born 1907); and two daughters Eileen (1894-1998) and Margaret (1896-1974).
	The Chedworth census of 1901 recorded that Oliver Bliss was 37 and a carpenter, his wife Priscilla was also 37, and their three children at that time were Eileen who was 6, Margaret who was 4, and baby Alec who was just one year old.
	Ten years later the family living at Chedworth comprised Priscilla and Oliver who were both 47, and three of their five children Eileen 16, Allen 8, and Geoffrey who was 3. Missing daughter Margaret was 14 and was listed within the Hastings registration area at that time, but it seems that son Alec may have died while still a child since no 1911 record of him has been found anywhere in the UK at that time.
	The family lived at Bliss Cottage in Chedworth where Oliver died in 1930, and was followed by Priscilla twenty-four years later in 1954.
	It was Priscilla’s daughter Eileen Hambidge nee Bliss who we have to thank for providing the names of the individuals in the photographs displayed in this family line. Thanks also go to the brothers John and Anthony Collett who kindly made the photographs available for use in this file.
3O30	Henry Martin Collett was born on 16.05.1867 at Chedworth, and it was there that he spent the early years of his life. In 1871 he was three years old, and by April 1881 Henry had left school and was working as a farm labourer at the age of thirteen. At that time he was still living with his family at Chapel Hill in Chedworth.
	Within the next decade he left the family home and by 1891 he was recorded in that year’s census as living with his older siblings Eliza Ann and Hubert (above) in Cheltenham. And it was at Cheltenham that he met his future wife Elizabeth to whom he was married in 1892. Elizabeth had been born at Cheltenham in 1866.
	Within a year of being married the couple were living at Birmingham where their first child was born. Over the next seven years Elizabeth presented Henry with a further three children, all of them born in Birmingham.
	So by 1901, according to the census that year, Henry M Collett of Chedworth was 33 and his occupation was that of a carpenter. He was living in Birmingham with his wife Elizabeth, who was 34, and their first four children, Olive 7, Jessie 6, Henry 3, and one year old Alfred.
	During the next decade a further two children were added to the family which was living at 37 Montpellier Street in the Sparkbrook district of Birmingham between Balsall Heath and Small Heath in April 1911. Montpellier Street is still there today, just off the A4540 Highgate Road.
	At this time the complete family was made up of head of the house Henry Martin Collett 43 of Chedworth who had been married to Elizabeth, 44 and from Cheltenham, for nineteen years. Henry was described as being a carpenter and a joiner.
	The couple’s children were Olive Elizabeth 17, Jessie Priscilla 16, Henry Garth 13, Alfred Martin 11, Hubert John 3, and their latest arrival Susan who was just one month old, all born at Birmingham.
	Henry Martin Collett died in 1946.
	3P23	Olive Elizabeth Collett		Born in 1893
	3P24	Jessie Priscilla Collett		Born in 1894
	3P25	Henry Garth Collett		Born in 1897 at Birmingham
	3P26	Alfred Martin Collett		Born in 1899 at Birmingham
	3P27	Hubert John Collett		Born in 1907 at Birmingham
	3P28	Susan Collett		Born in March 1911 at Birmingham
3O31	Ebenezer William Collett, who was referred to as Ebby by the family, was born at Chedworth on 06.12.1868. According to the two censuses of 1871 and 1881 Ebenezer was two years and twelve years old respectively and was living with his family at Chapel Hill in Chedworth.
	By the time of the census of 1891 he was listed as being 22 and was working as an agricultural labourer, while he was still living in Chedworth. And it was at Chedworth where he later married (1) Elizabeth who was born at Northleach in 1873.
	The census of 1901 confirmed that Ebenezer was born at Chedworth, that he was 32, and that he was a carpenter on a farm, although it is known that he later became ‘estate carpenter’ at Ampney Crucis. In March 1901 Ebenezer was living at Village Street in Ampney St Mary with his twenty-seven years old wife Elizabeth H Collett and their one year old son Ebenezer W Collett who was born at Chedworth.
	Ebenezer’s wife Elizabeth, who was also known within the family as Eliza, tragically died while giving birth to the couple’s second son Henry John Collett in April 1903 at Ampney Crucis.
	A little while after the death of his wife Ebenezer married (2) Fanny and within the next few years the family returned to Ampney St Mary where they were living in April 1911. The census that year recorded that Ebenezer Collett of Chedworth was 42, his wife Fanny of Burford was 51, and his two sons were Ebenezer William Collett of Chedworth who was 11 and Henry John of Ampney Crucis who was 7.
	Ebenezer’s new wife Fanny had been born in 1860 at Burford in Oxfordshire, where she had a nephew Alfred Francis who for many years was the undertaker at Burford, while Alfred’s wife was a teacher at Burford Primary School.
	The 1931 marriage certificate of Ebenezer’s son Henry John Collett confirmed that the boy’s father Ebenezer Collett had been a carpenter. It was thirteen years after this happy event that Ebenezer William Collett senior died in 1944.
	3P29	Ebenezer William Collett		Born on 27.07.1899
	3P30	Henry John Collett		Born on 02.04.1903
3O32	Martha Ann Collett was born at Stonehouse near Stroud on 30.04.1846. Her birth certificate confirmed she was the daughter of John Collett, grocer, and his wife Mary Ann Collett nee Silk. Shortly after, or at the time she was born, her mother died and her father remarried and within three years of being born her family emigrated to Australia, but returned to England after just a few years.
	By the time of the census of 1861 Martha A Collett had left the family home in Chedworth and was lodging at Cirencester with her sixty-six years old grandmother Mary Anne Collett. On that occasion the census recorded the pair staying at the home of Joseph Gegg and his wife Jane (formerly Collett) where Martha met her future husband. At that time Martha employed as a draper’s assistant.
	Six years later in 1867 she married Charles Gegg who was born at Withington in 1844. Charles was the son of Joseph and Harriett Gegg and he worked as a carpenter for his older brother John Gegg. During their life together Charles and his wife Martha were commonly known within the family as Charlie and Patti.
	By 1871 the couple was listed in that year’s census as being 26 and 24 respectively, while living within the Northleach registration district.
	It would appear that the marriage between Charles and Martha produced just one child for the couple born shortly after they were married, but the boy suffered an infant death. By April 1881 the couple was living alone at Brockhampton Quarry near Sevenhampton to the east of Cheltenham.
	Charles was a carpenter at 36 and his place of birth was confirmed as Withington. His wife Martha was described as a dressmaker aged 34 who had been born at Stonehouse. However, around two years later the couple were blessed with the birth of a daughter Ethel M Gegg.
	According to the next census in 1891 the couple was still living at Sevenhampton, when Charles was 46 and Martha was 44, and with them was their seven years old daughter Ethel.
	Just after the turn of the century Charles Gegg of Withington was 56 and was still working as a carpenter while living at Sevenhampton with his wife Martha A Gegg of Stonehouse who was 54 and was still working as a dressmaker. Living with them and supporting her mother was Ethel M Gegg 17 who was born at Sevenhampton and who was described as a mother’s help.
	According to the census of 1911 Martha Ann Gegg was 64 and was living at Sevenhampton within the Northleach registration district with her husband Charles who was 66, and their daughter Ethel Marion Gegg aged 27. Living with them at that time was Constance Gegg aged 12 of Hawling, who was the daughter of George Lambert Gegg (below) and his wife Edith. This is a photograph of Martha taken during the latter part of her life. Her husband Charles Gegg died at Brockhampton on 12.01.1915. Five years later Martha died at which time her daughter Ethel, then 36, moved to Brockhampton to live with Sarah Blanche Gegg.
3O33	Henry Collett was born at Stonehouse in 1847 but was baptised at Painswick, the only son of John Collett and his first wife Mary Ann Silk. While he was still very young his family emigrated to Australia where they lived for a couple of years, but where tragically his mother died in 1853. That sad event prompted his father to return to England, where he was remarried in 1855. Once back in Gloucestershire the new family made their home at Chedworth where Henry’s father John was born.
	Henry later married Sarah Ann Long of Huntley. The 1881 Census recorded the couple as living at Hill Cottages in Cowley just south of Cheltenham. Henry’s details stated that he was a baker aged 33 of Painswick which means he followed a similar career to that of his father John Collett (Ref. 3N4) who was a grocer and meal man in Chedworth.
	His wife Sarah Ann was listed as being 40 years of age and born at Huntley just west of Gloucester. At that time they were living at the home of Sarah Ann’s 60 years old mother Sarah Long who was born at Cowley and who occupation was that of a beer retailer.
	No record of Henry or Sarah has been found in the census of 1891. However, the Cowley census of 1901 listed baker Henry aged 53 as married to Mary Collett aged 52 who was born at Elkstone. This may indicate that Henry’s older first wife Sarah Ann had passed away sometime after 1881.
	Ten year later it would appear that Henry was once again a widower and that by 1911 he had returned to Chedworth where he was living at the age of sixty-three.
	It may be interesting to note that there were other members of the Collett family living in Cowley in 1881 and two of them were also listed in the census as being residents at Hill Cottages like Henry and Sarah Collett (above).
	The first, and eldest of these, was Richard Collett who was born around 1810 at Fyfield near Eastleach Martin who had moved there to be married in 1840 and who remain there for the rest of his life. Living with him from the time of the death of her husband was his sister Elizabeth Lafford nee Collett of Fyfield.
	Also living at Cowley but at the ‘school’ was George Richard Collett, the eldest son of the aforementioned Richard Collett. Living George was his wife Emily and their six children (at that time) two of which had been born at Cowley.
	George produced a Collett Family Bible but sadly this did not reveal any clues as to whether his line was in anyway connected to the Chedworth Colletts or any other Collett family of Gloucestershire. Further work is therefore still needed to determine whether there was a link.
	For more details on the families of Richard Collett of Fyfield (Ref. 47M9) and George Richard Collett of Cowley (Ref. 47N14) see Part 47 – The Fyfield & Eastleach Martin Line.
3O35	John Rowland Collett was born at Chedworth in 1856, the eldest of the four children of John Collett and Sarah Rowland. By the time he was 15 he had left school and was working as a grocer with his father, but ten years later, at the time of the census in 1881, he was no longer living with his family at Chedworth.
	During the following years it would appear that he went to live in Cheltenham where he married his cousin Elizabeth Johanna Weake Rowland. Elizabeth was born at Charlton Kings in 1858, and was the eldest daughter of grocer Benjamin Rowland and his wife Annie Tarry; Benjamin being the brother of John’s mother Sarah Rowland. In 1881 Elizabeth was 22 and was a dressmaker living at Bath Road in Cheltenham with her family, when her father’s occupation was that of a butcher.
	Further details of this further connection with the Rowland family line can be found in Part 10 – Other Branch Lines for Elizabeth Johanna Weake Rowland (Ref. 10N1)
	The couple may have married around 1885 or 1886, since it was in 1887 that their only child was born. According to the Cheltenham census of 1891, John was referred to as Rowland Collett, age 35, his wife Elizabeth Collett was 32, and their daughter Daisy G Collett was three years old.
	Then years after that, in March 1901, John Rowland Collett of Chedworth was recorded in the census as living at 2 Exmouth Buildings in the St James district of Cheltenham. At that time in his life he was 45 and was a furniture dealer having his own account, and was working at home in Cheltenham. With him there, was his wife Elizabeth from Cheltenham, who was 42, and their daughter Daisy Gladys Collett who was 13 and born at Cheltenham.
	The home at 2 Exmouth Buildings had on one side the Exmouth Arms Inn, and on the other side was living Elizabeth’s mother Ann Rowland, a grocer aged 73, with her two sons John, age 39 and a pork butcher, and David, age 37, who was a mealman. Looking after the three of them was Elizabeth’s younger sister Ruth Rowland, age 31, who was described as a domestic servant.
	The family of three was still living at Cheltenham ten years later in 1911. John Rowland Collett was 55 and his wife was listed as Elizabeth J Collett who was 52. Still living with them was their daughter who was 23.
	3P31	Daisy Gladys Collett		Born in 1887 at Cheltenham
3O36	Ruth Collett was born at Chedworth in 1859, the daughter of John Collett and Sarah Rowland. At the time of the census in 1881, Ruth was an unmarried shop woman and, at the age of 22, she was still living with her parents and her sisters Clara and Emily at Chedworth. Her father was a grocer and mealman, and it therefore seems very likely that Ruth was employed by him to work in his shop. The photograph on the right may have been taken around that time. In 1891 Ruth was 32 and she was still living in Chedworth with her sister Clara (below), with whom she was also still living ten years later in 1901 at the age of 42. The Chedworth census information indicated that she was “living on her own means” following the deaths of both of her parents.
	It would appear that neither of the two sisters ever married and by April 1911 they had both left Chedworth and were recorded as still living together but in Swindon, where Ruth Collett from Chedworth was 52.
3O37	Clara Collett was born in 1862 at Chedworth where, in 1881, she was an unmarried shop woman aged 19 still living with her parents John (Ref. 3N4) and Sarah Collett and sisters Ruth and Emily. John was a grocer and mealman and it seems likely that Clara was employed by him.